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'David Ashton, like Robert Louis Stevenson or Ian Rankin, is inspired by the beauty-and-beast nature of Edinburgh. His interpretation of James McLevy is worthy of the original man,’ - The Sherlock Holmes Society of London

It is 1860 and a Confederate officer, Jonathen Sinclair, arrives in Edinburgh with a sheaf of money to purchase a blockade-runner from Clydeside shipbuilders. He is betrayed to the Union forces and is shot dead by their secret agents. Who are they and where is Sinclair's money? McLevy investigates in this thrilling tale of corruption.

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'McLevy is a sort of Victorian Morse with a heart.' - Financial Times

The third in David Ashton’s series of McLevy thrillers, A Trick of the Light sees McLevy team up with Arthur Conan Doyle to pursue a ruthless killer.

 

 

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Aberdeen is a city shaped by its geography, climate and architecture. Like the land from which it grew, it projects qualities of hard work and fortitude, firm solidity, a bold self-confidence and soaring aspiration.

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In this new and expanded edition of his much acclaimed book, Bob Smith introduces some of the most intriguing and eccentric details about the North-East’s premier city.

            

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Based on contemporary documents and histories, Roderick Graham paints a unique picture of Mary, Queen of Scots, as a young girl adrift in the dangerous seas of sixteenth-century politics and examines the events that would tragically lead her to the executioner’s block.

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Based on contemporary documents and histories, Roderick Graham paints a unique picture of Mary that sees her neither as a Catholic martyr, nor as a husband-murdering adulteress, but as a young girl adrift in the dangerous seas of sixteenth-century politics.
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The Accies looks back on the rich history of Edinburgh Accies, examining the great names and feats that have helped make Raeburn Place such a bastion of the Scottish, British and world game, and sealing its place in the annals as the cradle of Scottish rugby.
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Lavishly illustrated, this is the remarkable history of the Edinburgh Academical Football Club, the oldest rugby club in Britain. Limited Edition - 150 individually numbered copies signed by David Sole and Mike Blair.
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A new example of the diverse pathways and the multiple dimensions of Kenneth White's method in that highly original type of travel-writing he calls the waybook.

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WINNER OF THE 2010 DUNDEE INTERNATIONAL BOOK PRIZE

Death stalks the aisles and haunts the Stage Door for two groups of entertainers in this blood-curdling Victorian murder mystery.

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This is the first overview of Highland society ever to be written which covers the period from the rise of Somerled to the first clearances.

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Features stories including 'A Working Mother', 'For the Love of Willie Owens', 'Bad Attitudes' and 'Jen's Party'.

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The complete life work of Agnes Owens in short stories - everything from Gentlemen of the West, Lean Tales, People Like That and 14 brand new unpublished stories.

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The poems of this bilingual collection by award-winning poet Angus Peter Campbell examine the decay and fragmentation of Gaelic language and identity in the modern age, exploring the ways in which language and identity intersect with the historical and natural landscapes of Scotland.

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Alba: Celtic Scotland in the Medieval Era is the first such volume to scrutinise in detail the history of the Highlands and Islands incorporating the most up-to-date research.

        
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In AD 800 Scotland was shared between four peoples: the powerful kingdom of the Picts, who held sway over most of the landmass of Scotland; the kingdom of Dalriada in Argyll; the kingdom of the Britons in Strathclyde; and the divided and declining king
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An impressive compendium which thoroughly investigates French and other prisoners of war during the period of the Napoleonic War.

            

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Illustrated with colour maps and photographs, this guide introduces the visitor to the wealth of castles, churches, harbours, milestones and red-roofed ‘little houses’ that Fife has to offer.

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In 1936, with civil war sweeping through Spain, Ethel Macdonald - a working-class girl from Motherwell - was to become, for a year, one of the world's most famous voices. She was perhaps the first example of an 'embedded reporter', sending dispatches and broadcasts back from the Spanish Anarchist camp in Barcelona to the UK.
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This is the first book ever to be dedicated to the full range and versatility of one of the golden ages of Gaelic culture and features poets of European stature and significance.

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Anatomy Acts explores the social, cultural and scientific significance of anatomy in Scotland over the past 500 years. Accompanying catalogue to touring exhibition, opening May 2006 in Edinburgh.

    
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'Remarkable and moving,' - Will Self

The Italian Chapel on Orkney was built during World War Two by Italian prisoners of war.This book tells the story of the strength and tenacity, laughter and tears of the men who built it, showing how spirits defeated and despondent during years of exile were lifted by its creation.

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This is an evocative and striking collection from the master of the short story form.
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The Three Estaitis was first performed in the mid-sixteenth century to an audience of royalty and commoners alike. With its high style and penetrating political satire, it pressed for reform in Church and State and even in kingship itself with a hilarious masque of vice and corruption in high places.
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As the last Roman troops left Britain, a new phase opened in the history of what was to become Scotland.

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Anstruther: A History is written by a local author with a deep understanding of Anstruther, who conveys her enthusiasm for her subject in elegant prose and well-chosen pictures.

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Reproduced from the original publication of 1793, this edition includes additional special features such as reproductions of the original coloured drawings that Roy prepared for a presentation edition for King George III and a fascinating foldout map of the Antonine Wall, showing its route and plans of the many forts.
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A commanding history of the most northern outpost of the Roman Empire.

        
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Published to coincide with the quincentenary of Buchanan’s birth in 2006. Here, for the first time ever, Polygon presents a selection of Buchanan’s work, translated and accompanied by the work

    
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The Appin murder is one of the most famous unsolved crimes in Scottish history.

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The first personal biography of the brilliant eighteenth-century architect, Robert Adam.

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The first biography of Douglas Haig that takes into account modern military scholarship, giving a more rounded picture of the private man than has previously been available. What emerges is a picture of a comprehensible human being, not necessarily particularly likeable, but honourably ambitious, able and intelligent, and the man more than any other responsible for delivering victory in 1918.

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The author brings together archaeology, legend and history to produce a textured tapestry of the region and its people.

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Argyll – the enduring heartland – with a coastline longer than that of France is one of the most beautiful counties in Scotland and also one of the most varied.
    
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Argyll, Dalriada or Earra-ghaidheal, 'the Coastland' or 'Boundary of the Gael', is one of the most beautiful and historically significant parts of Scotland.

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A unique and comprehensive picture of an area rich in history, archaeology and geology.

    
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Arisiag and Morar, Norse and Gaelic, the ‘river-mouth bay’ and the ‘great water’, part of na garbh Chriochan (The Rough Bounds), an area so rugged and desolate it was itself known as the Highlands of the Highlands.

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Full of humour and life, Calum Smith's Lewis memoirs are a celebration of a still largely Gaelic culture and society in the throes of great change.

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Thorbjorn Campbell gives an original, fascinating and comprehensive account of Arran’s long and eventful history.

            
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'A splendid book,' - Niall Ferguson

Arras, 1917 is a biography of the author’s uncle, Ernest Reid, who died in 1917, an officer in the Black Watch, of wounds sustained in the Battle of Arras.

 

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As It Was serves as an autobiography and as a history of the island of Ulva. His recollections of childhood friends gradually recognising the landscape of eviction is particularly moving.

 

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‘Excellent’ – Robert Kee, Observer

‘the most complete account to date . . . an impressive job, by turns subtle in its political analysis and gripping in its narrative drive’ – New York Times

Based on original archive material and interviews with surviving members of SOE and Czech military intelligence, this story of the assassination of Reinhard Heydrich is as exciting and strange as a spy thriller.

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Since 1875 Hibernian Football Club has been an integral part of sporting life in the City of Edinburgh and Port of Leith; its early history up to 1946 has been brilliantly documented in The Making of Hibernian trilogy by Alan Lugton.

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Born in Aberdeenshire in 1838, Thomas Blake Glover was a widely-travelled merchant and a key figure in the industrialisation of Japan.

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A unique combination of illustrated guidebook and engrossing narrative, this is a chronological history of Atholl and Gowrie from prehistoric times to the present day, including maps of the district and site plans.

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Early fifth century, Europe, and two old friends, now bitter rivals, face each other on the battlefield. Attila, leader of the Huns, is confronted by Aetius, the last of the great Roman generals. In the epic battle that ensues, the stakes for Attila and Artius could not be higher as the fate of both their empires hangs in the balance.

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This book provides a unique record of the long contest of verbal warfare across the Border over the centuries.

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From his dream notebooks to his travels in Eastern Europe, Muir paints an unforgettable picture of the slow and sometimes painful growth of a poet’s sensibility as he comes to terms with his own nature amidst the terror and confusion of the twentieth century.

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A hilarious collection of thematically arranged insults, abuse and invective- sharp, witty and funny!

'Just buy the book and gie yer greetin face a treat.' - Scots Magazine

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A unique combination of illustrated guidebook and engrossing narrative, this is a chronological history of Ayrshire from prehistoric times to the present day, including maps of the region, site plans and illustrations of the major buildings and ruins.<
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